Mental Health First Aid Awareness Full Day Course

Course overview

This course is designed for anyone wanting to improve their skills and reach their potential as a practitioner. The course is fully interactive and prompts you to assess your own approach to supporting young people who are in care or education and other settings. The course covers key topics such as defining mental health first aid and how to use techniques where someone experiencing a mental health crisis, identifies mental health conditions and examines the signs and symptoms of those conditions. Encourages and facilitates discussion about the impact of mental health and substance misuse, provides learners with tools such as the 5 Step Mental Health First Aid Action Plan (ALGEE), facilitates discussion around suicide and risk factors , provides learners with techniques to start conversations with people and provides advice and interventions for supporting people with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders. The course also includes a downloadable PDF workbook that you can fill in as you complete the training, so that you can develop your skills as a leader or manager and get the most out of the course content.

Aims and objectives

• Define what Mental Health First Aid is and use it confidently when someone is in mental health crisis
• Identify mental health conditions and the signs and symptoms
• Discuss the impact of Mental Health and Substance Misuse Disorders
• Demonstrate the 5 step Mental Health First Aid action plan (ALGEE)
• Discuss Suicide and how to be aware of risk factors
• Use various ways to start a conversation
• Provide advice and interventions for supporting people with Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders